Archive for the ‘Tech Bits’ Category
GMail Breaks Audio-Visual Barrier
Yesterday evening around 8:00 PM (EST), I saw my friend Avadhoot’s gmail status showing . I wondered what is this new thing??? Egzactly @ that moment, our Shashi pinged me and asked, did you check Gmail’s video and voice chat. I Googled it immediately and installed Gmail’s Video-Voice chat feature and started enjoying it!!! All [...]
ADITYA: An Indigenous Mission
The success of Chadrayaan – 1 has boosted the confidence of ISRO scientists and now they are looking beyond moon. Now they are targetting SUN. ISRO has conceptually developed a sun mission and named it ADITYA, the first space based Solar Coronagraph intended to study corona. As per ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, Aditya has [...]
CHANDRAYAAN – 1: India’s Mission to the Moon
On 15th August 2003, India’s Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced “Our country is now ready to fly high in the field of science. I am pleased to announce that India will send her own spacecraft to the moon by 2008. It is being named Chandrayaan-1″. Chandrayaan means Moon Craft, in Sanskrit. Now, India is [...]
Mail Goggles: Google’s Solution for Drunk Emailing
Jon Perlow, Gmail Engineer @ Google labs, has developed a simple new feature for gmail users, which may stop them from sending mails, they might regret later. He calls it Mail Goggles. People are calling it Google’s solution for drunk e-mailing. Mail goggle, when enabled, asks the user to solve 5 simple maths problems before [...]
Last account activity in Gmail
While chatting with Deepak today, I came across one more topic for my blog. Thanks Deepya Deepya pinged me and asked whether I have seen this new feature offered by google. Then only I noticed this new feature. Deepya asked me what is its use. Unknowingly I gave him the answer that it might be [...]